Another reason to mourn Steve's early death

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what4 wrote: He did not live long enough to discover some of the ways Apple's minimalist approach to design makes it harder for people with aging eyesight to use their products -- tiny lettering, low contrast markers, overuse of icons that increasingly resemble one another...window-resizing corners that demand too much precision placement and movement of the cursor

If old folks learn just one trick, it should be how to do on-the-fly full-screen zoom.

...overly subtle identification of sockets, confusing model designations, confusing plugs and adapters,

True re: sockets. I think Apple's model identification is confusing but I understand the reasons Apple has gone that way (e.g. is "HP EliteBook 8460p" any less confusing?). The plugs and adapters situation is an industry problem, isn't it?

...a general lack of redundant labeling

Tooltips provide automatic redundant labelling. The Finder and most applications support them.